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- ), are an ethnic group that dominated much of Manchuria (Northeast ... Dynasty in 907 but fell to the Jin Dynasty of the Jurchen in 1125. Following ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, has earned ... Founded in the fourth century B.C.E., Anuradhapura served as of the ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- China is one of the countries which had the most advanced mathematics ... to constantly point south by the use of differential gears without ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- The Fall of Rome or the Fall of the Roman Empire refers to the defeat ... Some European nations saw themselves as so indebted to the legacy ...28 KB (4,463 words) - 00:34, 25 March 2024
- at its capital in Constantinople. Much of this territory had first fallen ... There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the eldest of seven ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro ... ) (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is ... Considered one of the greatest African empires, from the early fifteenth ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- quot;many islands") is a large grouping of over one thousand islands scattered ... Island. A Polynesian island group outside of this great triangle is Tuvalu ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- pot. Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty of China (c. 1700)]] archeology outside the United States) is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology ...28 KB (4,112 words) - 06:15, 12 August 2023
- It is unknown where the name Kilimanjaro originated, but a number ... why the diminutive kilima is used instead of the proper word for mountain ...13 KB (1,915 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- and Northern Zhou (北周) Dynasties of northern China, and their successor ... also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death. Yan stressed ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- the economic, social, and cultural center of the nation of Guatemala. It ... The area of Guatemala City was the location of Kaminaljuyu, a Mayan ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. It is renowned as ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... #039;. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican culture, noted for having ... Initially established during the Preclassic period, many of the Mayan ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini ... in the Sea, the Santorini Volcano: Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis ...26 KB (3,980 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- at 3,212 feet with an uninterrupted drop of 2,648 feet lying in the Canaima ... Angel Falls is located in the Guayana highlands, one of the five topographical ...8 KB (1,292 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- tribal (often hunter-gatherer) society and Western civilization (broadly interpreted ... In both cases, many of the beliefs and practices particular to these ...28 KB (4,339 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
